There is no such preaching as the experience which a man gives who has just realized the sinfulness of his own soul. I often hear myself outpreached by some new convert who can hardly put words together. Some say experimental preaching is shallow. Shallow! It is as deep as the soul of God.
Young man, when you get a parish don’t get discouraged for the first ten years, no matter how poor the work. There is no trade that requires so long an apprenticeship as preaching; and yet there is no trade to which they admit a man so soon, or in which he learns so fast It is easier to study law and become a successful practitioner, it is easier to study medicine and become a successful practitioner, than it is to study the human soul all through,—to know its living forms, and to know the way of talking to it, and coming into sympathy with it
